bug#44648: 28.0.50; handwrite produces invalid postscript output, needs a space

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Omar Antolín <omar.antolin@gmail.com> writes:

> I discovered today the `handwrite' command which produces postscript
> output than renders the current buffer in a handwritten style.  I tried
> it only discover my postscript viewer couldn't open the resulting file,
> signaling an error: "undefined ashowpage".
>
> I manually added a space to the single occurrence of "ashowpage",
> turning it into "a showpage" and now the postscript file works in my
> viewer.
>
> So it seems that simply changing line 244 of handwrite.el from
>
>     (insert "showpage exec Hwsave restore\n\n")
>
> to
>
>     (insert " showpage exec Hwsave restore\n\n")
>
> will fix this bug.

Yup; I can confirm both the problem and that this fixes the bug, so I've
now installed this in Emacs 28.

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